UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

@DamienHandel420 

i was shocked at the game plan. 

@SamRs 

congrats buddy. 

This card was so boring they gave bonuses to the two female bouts on the card and to the very first fight on the card.
I've never seen them give a bonus to the every first fight.  Also the guy beat a guy that quit.

Royval:  How goes one go into a title fight with middle school TDD??????????
Shavkat: boringgggggggggggggggggggggggggg
Colby:  WOW what a way to **** the bed.  Talk talk talk and come fight night you do nothing.  Yike.


Emmett fight:  I was surprised they showed Bryce twitch. lol

Terrible card
dont care

No idea how Fili didn't get a bonus for his ko. Hope he's on good pay after how long he's been there

Garbrandt no bonus? ***?

Performance of the month - Sean Strickland

I don’t understand all the WMMA hate, but everyone can have an opinion. But to trash one of the best fights of the year, without even watching the fight, makes no sense to me. 

Do you really like to watch good fighting?

Strickland punched DDP more times than Colby punched leon.

Sean is is gentleman, said to Burns son to move first lol

Because the main event and the co main event didn’t live up to the hype, they should have given all the finishes a bonus. 

now you know how strong lipski is

@Mr_Moon 

Don't worry that's JM Barrie, she's been watching MMA longer than a decade, and still somehow gives the most ******** brainless takes.

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I warned about Lipski, unbelievable Buday and O'Neill were favorites, they were both underdogs.

Any updates on Bryce this morning. Man that was a bad one

Pretty solid card! 

Bryce is OK per Dana

He posted a video to ig and seemed to be fine

I’m sure he’s badly concussed tho 

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Very humble in defeat Mitchell is , his response after KO loss.

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@JM Barrie 

54% all time on picks says it all

Not a bad card overall but the main card was fairly underwhelming compared to how good it looked on paper. I mean the craziest moment on the main card was Bryce getting shadow realmed and that was supposed to be a prelim. I fell asleep sometime within the first 2 minutes of the 3rd round of the main event and woke up to Leon giving his interview in the octagon. One of the only other times I passed out during a main event was Izzy vs. Yoel. 

I was actually very impressed by both Pantoja and Royval. Both guys left everything in the octagon. Can't believe that fight TGTD was +300. I'll also eat my crow for calling Josh Emmett the most over-rated fighter on the roster. That was very dumb to say before a fight where his opponent only had 10 days to prepare. He's still an over-rated, one dimensional power puncher but the guy cemented pretty clearly why he's a perennial top 7-10 featherweight. 

Anyone saying Shavkat is boring is just goofy. He literally took out another ranked opponent without really breaking a sweat. He could fight on the next card if he had to. His game plan was perfect even if it wasn't action packed. It was another very, very impressive performance from a guy who's already got a resume loaded with exciting finishes.

I mean, I guess I get it. When a guy is winning fights by spinning head kicks and standing chokes, a good old fashioned rear naked all of a sudden sounds boring and lame. The reality of the situation is Shavkat isn't boring so much as we're just adrenaline addicts who are hooked to the idea that he's a walking action movie. 

@CrimsonChinGuru 

Where are you lil guy, what happened to Americas champ? 

I like this card, the main card was really worse than imagined, but they were good fights
Emmett did what he knows how to do, this guy has absurd power in his hands, it was cool
Pimblett did his duty, I like Ferguson, but what did you expect other than a clear victory for Pimblett? Whoever considered his victory really only bet out of respect for him, he had no chance at all, he won't beat any other guy in the UFC, except someone who is in a degrading moment like him
Rakhmonov did his duty, this is his fight, good performance
Pantoja was phenomenal, I really like this guy a lot, I hope to see him defend his title another 3 times
Now, in the main fight who should we talk about? Colby Covington, what can I say about this complete idiot? This guy deserves all the contempt in the world, this guy is an idiot, unfortunately he didn't get knocked out like Bryce Mitchell.